Baby Quote by Randall Jarrell

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

— Peter Greenaway

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had…

— Stephen Potter

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

— Tibor Fischer

“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that certain critics…

— Joshua Ferris

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it…

— Dave Eggers

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

— Agnes Repplier

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

— Brian Lumley

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt